The Cult of St Thecla: A Tradition of Women’s Piety in Late Antiquity

Publication Date: 
2001
Author(s): 
Stephen J. Davis
ISBN Number: 
9780200000000
Publisher Site/Purchasing Link: 
Oxford University Press
Author (Faculty Member): 
Stephen Davis

My first book investigates the devotional practices, social institutions, and material artifacts connected with a
popular, but controversial, female saint in early Christianity. Marshalling literary, artistic, archaeological,
papyrological, and epigraphic evidence from Asia Minor and Egypt, I reconstruct the role that communities of women
played in the promotion of Saint Thecla’s cult.